From a potential hostile takeover to maintaining integrity in broadcasting the government'€™s dirty secrets, gripping storylines are set to make for an epic third and final season of The Newsroom.

Created by Oscar-winning scriptwriter Aaron Sorkin, this Golden Globe-nominated HBO original drama series follows the News Night team at the fictional cable channel Atlantis Cable News (ACN).

It features Jeff Daniels as anchor Will McAvoy, who, with his staff, sets out to broadcast a news show in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles and their own personal entanglements.

Other returning cast regulars for the final season include Emily Mortimer as News Night executive producer MacKenzie McHale, Sam Waterston as McAvoy'€™s old-school boss Charlie Skinner, John Gallagher Jr. as producer Jim Harper, Alison Pill as associate producer Maggie Jordan, Thomas Sadoski as former News Night executive producer Don Keefer, Dev Patel as resourceful self-made newsman Neal Sampat and Olivia Munn as financial news analyst Sloan Sabbith.

Several guest stars will also return, including Jane Fonda as Leona Lansing, CEO of ACN'€™s parent company Atlantis World Media, Chris Messina  as ACN president Reese Lansing, David Harbour as reporter Elliot Hirsch and Marcia Gay Harden as ACN attorney Rebecca Halliday.

New characters will also be introduced in this latest season, which airs every Monday at 8 p.m. on HBO.

The new characters include BJ Novak as Lucas Pruit, a suitor for control of ACN, Kat Dennings as Reese'€™s half-sister Blair Lansing, Mary McCormack as FBI agent Molly, Joanna Gleason as Charlie Skinner'€™s wife Nancy and Clea DuVall as Lily, a mysterious woman who works for a government contractor.

Throughout the six-part season, McAvoy and the rest of the staff will face personal and professional dilemmas that will forever determine their futures.

Using the Boston Marathon bombing as a contextual background, the season starts in high gear by taking a look at the core issue of maintaining journalistic integrity in the era of 24-hour news cycles, while crowd-sourcing and '€œcitizen journalism'€ results in the dissemination of misinformation.

Some of the issues tackled in the final season include the decision from the News Night team to err on the side of caution in reporting a major breaking story, which may enhance credibility, if not ratings.

Thomas Sadoski (center) plays former News Night executive producer Don Keefer. (Courtesy of HBO)
The series also takes a look at the issue of anonymity and government secrecy when resourceful self-made newsman Neal (Dev Patel) faces a dilemma as he obtains from an anonymous source stolen confidential government documents revealing how false stories planted in newspapers spawned fatal riots in Kundu, India.

'€œIt [government secrecy] is something that is very prevalent particularly in American society right now. It has been for the last 13 years anyway, what level of government oversight and the need for security and when it starts violating the privacy of our citizens,'€ Thomas Sadoski, who plays former News Night executive producer Don Keefer, said during a recent phone interview about the message the series was trying to convey in its final season.

'€œIt is an interesting discussion to have. I don'€™t think we come to any conclusion in the end, but I think it has more to do with our viewers starting to talk about it.'€

Sadoski described the final season as '€œepic'€ and said that he hoped that all of the hard work from the cast would be able to earn them further recognition at the Golden Globes.

'€œI would hope that the show and everybody in it gets recognized for the great work that everyone has done. In regards to my performance, if people see my work as worthy of a nomination, then I would be humbly grateful,'€ he said.

Sadoski said that it was not easy for the cast to say goodbye to The Newsroom after working together for three years. He added that working in the studio for The Newsroom was a joy and the entire cast decided to celebrate their final day together with champagne on the streets of New York.

'€œIt was sad but at the same time, I think that we all felt that we have done our work, we were all satisfied with the way we were leaving these characters,'€ he says.

'€œIt'€™s always hard when you leave a group of people that you have grown to be close to in the course of the last few years.'€

On a personal level, Sadoski said he directly felt the impact on his own perception of news and the current media after playing the role of a journalist in the series.

'€œI'€™ve learned a great deal of respect for journalists and journalism having worked on the show for a long time. I'€™ve got a healthy skepticism. I think now, in regards to where and how I go about getting my news; I don'€™t trust just one source of news,'€ he says.

'€œI think I might have been a bit lazy about that in the past, now the show has taught me to really get all the information from both sides and consider what sources my information is coming from.'€

Now that The Newsroom is over, Sadoski said that everyone involved was ready to move on to other projects but he knew that their time working together would be missed by each of them for years to come.

'€œ[I will miss] the people. As an artist, you have this rare opportunity to tell a story where everything just clicks. I have the opportunity to work and to learn. Every day I feel like I am in school. I learn from everybody.'€